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Serving is lifelong for Ahwatukee Legion commander
AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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d Mangan was just out of high school in Illinois when he first answered his country’s call to service in 1961. And while 38 years have passed since he left the U.S. Air Force, the Ahwatukee man hasn’t stopped serving – or wearing his uniform proudly. Commander of Ahwatukee’s American Legion Post 64, Mangan is celebrating a special accolade as he prepares for Veterans Day this Saturday. He was inducted last month into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame, becoming one of only about 300 of the estimated 522,000 former military men and women in the state to be accorded that honor. “I am so honored to get that award – 23 veterans selected out of 600,000 in Arizona. (Kim Carrillo/AFN Staff Photographer) Wow,” he said, referring to the number of Ahwatukee American Legion Post 64 Commander Ed Mangan headed the unit’s color guard for more than a decade and still participates in it despite his other post-related duties. Hall of Fame inductees this year. Though he was not involved in direct enemy But that hasn’t stopped the father of two as its color guard commander from 2005 action, Mangan was impacted by Agent Orange while serving during the Vietnam War daughters from giving back to his brothers until last year, when he stepped up to post at bases in Thailand and Vietnam, where he and sisters in arms or his community. commander. Mangan has been involved in Ahwatuserviced planes and helicopters as an avionics See VETERAN on page 19 kee’s American Legion for 15 years, serving technician and aircraft maintenance officer.
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BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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shaken Ahwatukee community is rallying around the family of a devoted Lakewood mother of two and active volunteer who was killed by an alleged drunk driver while on her regular early morning jog near her home last week. Martha Hilts, 36, was killed after a car struck her, apparently from behind, while jogging on the sidewalk along Lakewood Loop around 4:30 a.m. Nov. 2. The driver, Shannon Marie Scott, 25, (Special to AFN) also of Lakewood, was arrested on a The late Martha Hilts, second from left, took this photo of herself and her family, including her 8-year-old son and felony charge of reckless manslaughter 12-year-old daughter and husband Chris. after police say her blood-alcohol level
was .08 – exactly at the minimum for a drunk-driving determination. The arrest report said that besides the defendant showing “signs and symptoms of alcohol impairment,” police detected “a strong odor of marijuana” in her car. Relatives said police estimate the car was traveling at 40 m.p.h. when it struck the victim, throwing her 75 feet. The car also hit a cement garbage receptacle and a palm tree, police said. Scott was booked into jail on a $25,000 bond. Friends, neighbors and strangers from Ahwatukee, two schools, a church and the running community immediately rose to help Mrs. Hilts’ husband, Chris, See
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